Sector: Industrial components
Location: Rubiera - Reggio Emilia
Automation by Wipro Ferretto for ISB’s 4.0 logistics hub
The automated storage system designed and built by Wipro Ferretto for the Emilian company, able to store up to 56,000 pallets and manage 70,000 codes, is an example of intelligent logistics based on integration, traceability and scalability.
Thanks to continuous investment in the creation of a solid distribution network in Italy and abroad, ISB Industries is a global leader in the supply of bearings and industrial automation components for customers from a wide range of sectors pointing to industry 4.0.
With the aim to keep growing and offer national and international customers more efficient logistics services, the company has made significant investments in the last two years, including the creation of a strategic logistic hub in Rubiera, Emilia.
In addition to increasing storage capacity, it was required to improve goods management and traceability while at the same time optimizing flowsand speeding up order processing.
The Wipro Ferretto took on this ambitious challenge and, after 15 months of study and analysis, a 2,510 square meterself-supporting automatic storage system was actually constructed in one year.
It was designed to handle inbound and outbound flows of pallets as well as picking/refilling and depalletizingoperations. The new storage system has 7 stacker cranes which can handle up to 135 pallets per hour. The inbound and outbound pallets are conveyed by means of a circuit with 5 Fast Ring steering shuttles. An anthropomorphic robot automatically de-palletizes of the load units at the end of the line.
The Wipro Ferretto's job, however, was not limited to the design and construction of the storage system. Its technicians supported ISB during all the initial phasesafter commissioning, in order to increase awareness of the system’s potential: from the supply specifications to the development of a new traceability system, from product packaging specifications to the redefinition of the warehouses ABC curves.
Thus, Wipro Ferretto successfully responded to the needs of ISB Industries' new 4.0 logistics hub. The self-supporting automatic storage system constructed in Rubierahas tripledstorage capacity and allowed materials to be reorganized in an orderly and traceable manner, making handling operations both quicker and safer.
